Book Launch

It's been awhile since I posted. It's been crazy, busy at work lately. Last week, I attended the book lauch of Fiona Ellis's Inspired Fair Isle Knits at the Textile Museum. Fiona had all her test knitters come up and show their work. I had two garments in the book. The first is this great halter top done in Young Touch cotton. That's yours truly holding it up.

The second garment I test knit was the pleated sleeve cardigan. Rebecca, the cover model, wore it that evening. It is made with King Cole's Antitickle Merino Superwash. It is one of Fiona and my favourite DKs. It is lovely to work with and comes in a great colour range.

Fiona looked lovely in the groovy jacket she got at Marks and Spencer (don't you miss them being in Canada) on sale! Two of my favourite words.

It was a great evening. Fiona has done an excellent job on this book. I wonder what the next will be??? I keep hinting a slip stitch book would be great but we'll see.

Cascade 220 has finally arrived. It got stuck in the Port on New York, held up by the extra security and general congestion. Anyway, it's safe in our warehouse now and will be in stores in the very near future.

My sister has been hinting, not very subtly, that she hasn't received anything hand knit for quite a while. So I'm doing a very simple cardigan out of Tosca Jaspe. It's very simple, Chanel style, with garter stitch trim. I'm only going to put one button at the neck. It's the type of style my sister really likes and it is knitting up really quickly.

I'm also working on a baby matinee jacket for Lorena at the Naked Sheep's new baby girl. I'm using one of King Cole's newer patterns but knitting with Dale of Norway's Baby Ull. It's a superwash wool 4 ply and I'm really loving knitting with it. It's almost finished so next post (which hopefully will be sooner than this one) I'll have a picture of it for you.

It's a lovely fall day here. The leaves are looking very lovely. I think I'll go for a walk shortly.

Happy Knitting,

Susan